Hai. I'm leveling a Barbarian, and I'm having a very hard time staying alive. I thought having decent lifesteal would help but I keep getting killed by mobs hitting me for half of my HP in 1 hit. Level 44 and in act 3 Nightmare. <.<

Anyone can point me out the correct way to play a barbarian? Stats to aim for, passives to use? I use the Jump in middle -> spam whirlwind -> use earthquake on though enemyes approach.

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

Are you using Revenge? If not why aren't you using Revenge. It hits like a brick house and heals you a good amount.

I have found on my Barbarian that Fury spending is completely optional (needs to be addressed IMO simplest option would to have a passive that heals when spending Fury) so I tend to not use a standard secondary ability.

Primary: Cleave+RuptureSecondary: Whirlwind+Blood Funnel1: Leap+Call of Arreat2: Overpower+Killing Spree3: Overpower+Best Served Cold4: Earthquake+The Mountains Call or Wrath of the Berseker+Insanity both are great for burst and depends on what you're fighting for the best one.

PassivesSince we're using the crit runes for Revenge and Overpower focusing on that for passivesRuthless to crit more for more!Superstition just a general great survival ability.Weapon Master if using Mace/Axes or Nerves of Steel for survival or Berserker Rage for just bonus damage.

If survival is still an issue drop Whirlwind and use War Cry+Hardened Wrath

We live in a society where people born on third base constantly try to steal second, yet we expect people born with two strikes against them to hit a homerun on the first pitch.

You are playing almost the same as me, but i use the 40% armor shout instead of revenge... am i a bad person?

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

Turns out I substituted the 65% damage reduction skill with Revenge, made a huge change O.o

This is my skill setup right now, now blasting through packs that were raping me before. (I suppose spending 100k gold in stamina/str/phis resist gear helped a bit as well).

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

Have you looked on AH for a -lvl req weapon? will do loads of differance.I really didnt find shout worth much at all at lower levels.When leveling the general strat should be kill it before they kill you, not trying to outlast it.

Earthquake and wrath are very powerfull, and when I leveled my barb I ended up rotating them so that I used one each elite pack (as I met one pack more ofthen than every 2 min)Once I reached hell I almost had to use both on each pack, or atleast that saved time as eartquake coupled with wrath just completely destroys any elite pack.

I really never found WW to be worth much at all for me, it just really was pretty useless.

Oh, and charge with reduced CD for each mob it hits is brilliant, hit 5mobs and its off CD again, and since all mobs are stunned after getting hit by charge, you can just chain charge through a big pack of mobs untill they are all dead.

They can be decently priced, because they don't show up unless you search for them explicitly (the level range on AH search doesn't take it into account).

halabar wrote:Currently she has a 730 dps weapon with 720ish LoH.. which she got at level 47. Works wonders.

Is that on a 1-hander? If so, that's a sweet piece. It'll easily see you through to the end of Act 1 inferno, and probably into Act 2. I've been running a 700 dps 1-hander with about 350 LoH + socket (so ~650 total) and got through to Belial. Couldn't kill him due to enrage timer, so I just bought a 780 dps + crit damage + socket for about a 3k char-sheet dps boost.

They can be decently priced, because they don't show up unless you search for them explicitly (the level range on AH search doesn't take it into account).

halabar wrote:Currently she has a 730 dps weapon with 720ish LoH.. which she got at level 47. Works wonders.

Is that on a 1-hander? If so, that's a sweet piece. It'll easily see you through to the end of Act 1 inferno, and probably into Act 2. I've been running a 700 dps 1-hander with about 350 LoH + socket (so ~650 total) and got through to Belial. Couldn't kill him due to enrage timer, so I just bought a 780 dps + crit damage + socket for about a 3k char-sheet dps boost.

Yep, Fist Weapon.

732 dps, +13 min damage, +206-481 Holy damage, 741 LoH, -lvl 12

Got it for ~300k.

Also picked up a 956 dps staff with 85 int and bonus fire damage for my enchantress for 85k (have to wait one more level to use it).

And, on a side note, sold 2 mil gold for $4.50 after tax, license, destination and handling charges.

Amirya wrote:... because everyone needs a Catagonskin rug.

twinkfist wrote:i feel bad for the Mogu...having to deal with alcoholic bears.

It's pretty hard to sell anything but the top end items right now. It may make more goblin sense to hold off until 1.4 hits. I would imagine more will be back to D3 at that point. There just seem to be way more buyers than sellers right now.

gtechman wrote:It's pretty hard to sell anything but the top end items right now. It may make more goblin sense to hold off until 1.4 hits. I would imagine more will be back to D3 at that point. There just seem to be way more buyers than sellers right now.

As mentioned above, I think the reason for this is the legalized gold selling. Item sales in the RMAH have gone off a cliff. However, I'm going to be selling off my best gear, so we'll see what happens.

Another factor is the boosted legendaries in 1.4, which might make current gear crap, so better to sell now.

Besides, I want to use the proceeds to pay for Panda, so need to get started now.

Amirya wrote:... because everyone needs a Catagonskin rug.

twinkfist wrote:i feel bad for the Mogu...having to deal with alcoholic bears.

My barbarian is now 60, I run with 8k armor 800 phis resist 670 fire resist 480 other resists and 15k dps, with a 1250 dps 2h weapon.While I got no problems with normal mobs in act 2, elites with any kind of elemental damage are simply destroying me

Any pointer on how to not be annihilated by expecially chains of fire / fiery mobs (but also any other kind of elemental damage mob)?

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

I got all my gear with armor + fire/phis resist + all resists, how am i supposed to raise it even more? >.<

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.